Mind Quotes · Page 489

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

— Joost Meerloo

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

— Frederick Lenz

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

— Peter Deunov

You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

— Lauren Bacall

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

— Joe Hill

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

— M.J. Rose

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

— Andrew Weil

A Mind, Like A Home, Is Furnished By Its Owner. So If Ones Life Is Cold And Bare, He Can blame None…

— Pacifiersucker

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on…

— Simon McBurney

Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it's merely…

— Mychal Wynn

“His useless pride had become so swollen that the expression 'caring nothing for appearances' could never, ever apply to him”

— Shion Miura

“I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.”

— Dan Simmons

“Stretching my arms out wide, I absorb the sun’s radiant energy and my soul soars very high. I am flying freely like…

— Susan L. Marshall

Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not…

— Cassandra Clare

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to…

— Barbara Olson

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do…

— Horace Pippin

“He saw Harvey and Edgar catch each other's eye as he looked off toward the strains of "Alley Cat," Jesus, hoping they'd…

— Elmore Leonard

Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your…

— Marya Hornbacher

Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing…

— Jack Heffron

“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts…

— Steven Pinker

“During his depression he lost that forward momentum. In fact, the loss of it was the very thing that was wrong with…

— A.S.A. Harrison

I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead,…

— Anonymous

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer…

— Jared Harris

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“. . . but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.”

— Joseph Conrad

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

— Ann B. Davis

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

— Publilius Syrus

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United?

— Dimitar Berbatov

When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.

— Adrian Peterson

“You see every day of life as a bonus once you have inner peace.”

— Steven Magee

And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind.

— Cindy Sheehan

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

— Peter Medawar

Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

— Virgil Abloh

The only way that you can really change a person's mind is by showing them something they haven't seen before.

— Nick Searcy

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel…

— Flying Lotus

What I found was, when I took care of my body, my mind and my emotions and my heart were way happier.

— Noah Centineo

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

— Geoffrey Fisher

The bottom line is that players have to be responsible for getting themselves in the right frame of mind.

— James Haskell

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

— Stan Wawrinka